What's New in VS2008

VS2008 contains lots of inovative features

It comes with the .NET Framework 3.5.

It was released on 19 November 2007 alongside the .NET Framework 3.5.

Some of the features listed below

Backward compatible with .NET Framework versions 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5.
Multi-Targeting support
Javascript Intellisense
Javascript debugging
Code editing improvements
Nested Master Page support
Web designer and CSS improvements
New Split View including vertical split
Enhanced support for the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions
LINQ to SQL designer
Enhanced XML support
Support for Silverlight
Support for WPF
Support for debugging .NET Framework 3.5 class libraries


Reference: www.asp.net